"Epitaph to a Dog ""Epitaph to a Dog"" (also sometimes referred to as ""Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog"") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming bitten and infected. The poem is inscribed on Boatswain's tomb, which is larger than Byron's, at Newstead Abbey, Byron's estate. The sections above the poem form a memorial eulogy to Boatswain, and introduce the poem. They are often"
"human Ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog who was born in Newfoundland May 1803 and died at Newstead Nov. 18th, 1808 When some proud Son of Man returns to Earth, Unknown to Glory, but upheld by Birth, The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below. When all is done, upon the Tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been. But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his"
"Byron is not a thing of which England should be ashamed ... a bust or a tablet might be put in the Poets' Corner and England be relieved of ingratitude toward one of her really great sons."" Robert Ripley had drawn a picture of Boatswain's grave with the caption ""Lord Byron's dog has a magnificent tomb while Lord Byron himself has none"". This came as a shock to the English, particularly schoolchildren, who, Ripley said, raised funds of their own accord to provide the poet with a suitable memorial. Close to the centre of Athens, Greece, outside the National Garden,"
"by George Cruikshank. A copy was found in Dickens's library after his death. Just before his marriage, James Boswell wrote a song, ""A Matrimonial Thought"" which was given a tune ""by the very ingenious Mr. Dibden."" In the blithe days of honey-moon,<br> With Kathe's allurements smitten,<br> I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon<br> And I called her dearest kitten.<br> But now my kitten's grown a cat,<br> And cross like other wives,<br> O! by my soul, my honest Mat,<br> I fear she has nine lives. Seven years after his death a subscription to raise a monument to Dibdin was set"
"in an episode of the CBC series ""Telescope"". The episode includes Mowat telling a bedtime story to his dog. St. John's water dog The St. John's water dog, also known as the St. John’s dog or the lesser Newfoundland, was a landrace (a dog bred for a purpose, not pedigree or appearance) of domestic dog from Newfoundland. Little is known of the types that went into its genetic makeup, although it was probably a random-bred mix of old English, Irish and Portuguese working dogs. They were favorite dogs of fishermen because they have extraordinary qualities like good temperament and working"
"1811 will, Byron requested that he be buried with him. The 26‐line poem ""Epitaph to a Dog"" has become one of his best-known works, but a draft of an 1830 letter by Hobhouse shows him to be the author, and that Byron decided to use Hobhouse's lengthy epitaph instead of his own, which read: ""To mark a friend's remains these stones arise/I never knew but one – and here he lies."" Byron also kept a tame bear while he was a student at Trinity, out of resentment for rules forbidding pet dogs like his beloved Boatswain. There being no mention"
"Anglian poet and songwriter, Martin Newell, wrote about the discovery and retold some of the stories he heard from locals while preparing his epic poem, ""Black Shuck: The Ghost Dog of Eastern England"": Black Shuck Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia, one of many ghostly black dogs recorded in folklore across the British Isles. Accounts of Black Shuck form part of the folklore of Norfolk, Suffolk, the Cambridgeshire fens and Essex, and descriptions of the creature's"
"went to investigate. He found Gough's skeleton, his hat split in two, and his dog still in attendance. Initial newspaper reports that the dog had survived by eating the remains of her dead master were quickly forgotten. Gough became regarded as a martyr to the romantic ideal, and his dog Foxie was celebrated for her attachment and fidelity to her long-dead master. William Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott both wrote poems about the scene; Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer both painted it. A memorial stone to Gough was erected on Helvellyn in 1890 and quotes part of Wordsworth's poem ""Fidelity""."
"The Solitary Reaper ""The Solitary Reaper"" is a ballad by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. The poem was inspired by his and his sister Dorothy's stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803. '""The Solitary Reaper is one of Wordsworth's most famous post-""Lyrical Ballads"" lyrics"". The words of the reaper's song are incomprehensible to the speaker, so his attention is free to focus on the tone, expressive beauty, and the blissful mood it creates in him. The poem functions to 'praise the beauty of music and"
"in 1785, lived at Edgbaston Hall, Birmingham between 1786 and 1799. While there, he bred Newfoundland Dogs. There is very little else on his experiments with these dogs. His daughter Charlotte married a Beriah Botfield and they had a painting in Norton Hall by Samuel Cox of Daventry painted about 1830-1840 called ""Portrait of Lion, a Newfoundland Dog, and Juba, a Pug Dog of Mrs. Botfield's. This hung in the north front of Norton Hall. This painting would have been made around the same time that Landseer painted his portrait of Lion, the Newfoundland Dog. (See 'Catalogue of Pictures in"
"at Lesbury on 14 September 1811, and was buried at Cornhill-on-Tweed.< Stockdale's major work was ""The Poet"" (1773), a poem. He wrote also: Stockdale famously eulogized Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge in his ""An Elegy on a Friend's Favourite Cat"". The poem appeared in the ""Universal Magazine"" for May 1771. Percival Stockdale Percival Stockdale (1736–1811) was an English poet, writer and reformer, active especially in opposing slavery. Born 26 October 1736 (O. S.) at Branxton, Northumberland, he was the only child of Thomas Stockdale, vicar of the parish and perpetual curate of Cornhill-on-Tweed, and his wife, Dorothy Collingwood of Murton, Northumberland."
"familiarly lain there, as a Newfoundland dog; the sight of that household boat evoked a thousand trustful associations..."" Herman Melville ""Benito Cereno"" ""Your fatuous specialist is now beginning to rebuke ""secondrate"" newspapers for using such phrases as ""to suddenly go"" and ""to boldly say"". I ask you, Sir, to put this man out without interfering with his perfect freedom of choice between ""to suddenly go"", ""to go suddenly"" and ""suddenly to go"". Set him adrift and try an intelligent Newfoundland dog in his place."" George Bernard Shaw, letter to the Chronicle newspaper (1892) Notes Newfoundland dog The Newfoundland dog is"
"Foss (cat) Foss (c. 1873 – November 1887), formally named Aderphos, was the pet cat of Edward Lear, the 19th-century author, illustrator, and poet. A stumpy-tailed, portly, and unattractive tabby cat, he was a favourite of Lear's and played an important role as a companion in the poet's lonely later years. Foss is mentioned frequently in Lear's correspondence and makes an appearance in his illustrations and at least one poem. Foss is said to have been the inspiration for the pussycat in Lear's illustrations for his poem ""The Owl and the Pussycat"". The funeral that Lear provided for Foss, which"
"Shakespeare's Dog Shakespeare's Dog is a novel by Canadian writer Leon Rooke, published in 1983. The novel tells the story of William Shakespeare's early career, including his aspirations to break through to popular success as a writer and his courtship and eventual marriage to Anne Hathaway, from the perspective of Hooker, Shakespeare's pet dog. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. A 20th-anniversary edition of the novel was reissued in 2003 by Dundurn Press. It was later adapted"
"Betjeman's arms when he died in 1984. Archibald Ormsby-Gore Archibald Ormsby-Gore, better known as Archie, was the teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman. Together with a toy elephant known as Jumbo, he was a lifelong companion of Betjeman's. Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went up to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius, Sebastian Flyte's bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled ""Archie and the Strict Baptists"", in which the bear's sojourns at"
"large Newfoundland dog. In the background are trees and water. The Gainsborough portrait has been at auction several times in the past 25 years: it made £1.2m in 1987, and then £2.65m in 2002, both times setting a world record for Gainsborough. Before the 1987 sale it had been in the same British collection for 90 years - for a long time it was on loan to the government, and hung at 10 Downing St for two years. John Bullock (1731–1809) Colonel John Bullock of Faulkbourne M.P. (31 December 1731 – 28 December 1809) was an English landowner and Member"
"art’. Of the tower itself he says ‘it is one of the noblest designs of its age and, had it been completed, it would have had few parallels in England’. Over the doorway of the West Tower there is an original inscription bearing the Prior’s symbol (a moon) and stating that he ‘""began this foundacyon in MCVXX""’. It is flanked by models of hounds, which may be an allusion to the Prior’s duties as Master Forester or a play on the name of the husband of the Foundress, William Meschin (""mes chien""). A third dog on the north side, which"
"to the romantic vision. Such interpretations stressed man's bond with nature, as represented by the faithful dog contrasted with the wildness and savagery of the landscape that caused his death. Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer painted the scene, Landseer titling his ""Attachment"". The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1830, accompanied by the poem ""Helvellyn"", written about the death by Sir Walter Scott. William Wordsworth also produced a poem describing the scene, entitled ""Fidelity"". Wordsworth lived in the lakes, and had brought both Scott and the chemist Humphry Davy to see the spot where Gough's body was found."
"for the stage by playwright Rick Chafe, premiering at the National Arts Centre in conjunction with the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 2008. Shakespeare's Dog Shakespeare's Dog is a novel by Canadian writer Leon Rooke, published in 1983. The novel tells the story of William Shakespeare's early career, including his aspirations to break through to popular success as a writer and his courtship and eventual marriage to Anne Hathaway, from the perspective of Hooker, Shakespeare's pet dog. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen"
"to sell his villa in Hampstead and move to a house in Pimlico. He also bought an estate in Sussex, but his agricultural efforts were not a great success. He wrote a political romance, ""Armata"", which ran to several editions. Causes which Erskine took up in his retirement were animal rights, Greek independence, and the defence of Queen Caroline. He had always been an animal lover; amongst his favourite animals were a Newfoundland dog called Toss who used to accompany him to chambers, a macaw, a goose and two leeches. He introduced a bill in the House of Lords for"
"the south wall. The poet William Wordsworth and his daughter Dora visited Newlands Church in May 1826 while on a walking tour of the fells from Rydal Mount. Wordsworth was so impressed by his first glimpse of the church through half-opened leaves that he was prompted to write in his poem, ""To May"": In the summer of 1901, children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter was staying at nearby Lingholm and often had the Vicar of Newlands Church and his family to tea. The vicar's young daughter Lucie Carr played with Potter's pet hedgehog during these visits and inspired the character"
"the poem is found in the Maitland Folio Manuscript where it is entitled ""To The Quene"" and has the postscript ""Quod Dunbar of James Dog Kepair of the Quenis wardrop"". Apparently Dunbar's complaint did not convince the Queen. The poem He Is Na Dog, He Is a Lam seems to represent a half-hearted change of the poet's mind. Queen Margaret of Scotland was the consort of James IV of Scotland. She was the daughter of Henry VII of England and had married King James in 1503. William Dunbar was a poet employed at the Scottish court during the reign of"
"Richard Brathwait Richard Brathwait or Brathwaite (1588 – 4 May 1673) was an English poet. He was born at Burnishead, near Kendal. He entered Oriel College, Oxford in 1604, and remained there for some years, pursuing the study of poetry and Roman history. He moved to Cambridge to study law and afterwards to London to the Inns of Court. His father, Thomas, died in 1610, and the son went down to live on the estate he inherited. He was married at Hurworth, 4 May 1617, to Frances, daughter of James Lawson, of Nesham Abbey. On the death of his elder"
"approached. Although Hodge was not Johnson's only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson's life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge's life was celebrated in ""An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat"" by Percival Stockdale (published 1778). In this poem the phrase ""sable furr"" indicates that Hodge was a black cat; also, the fact that Stockdale was Johnson's neighbour from 1769 onwards suggests that Hodge was alive at that time. Today Hodge is remembered by a bronze statue, unveiled by"
"to Rossport Lodge in 1874. He was an amateur doctor, and he and his wife tended the sick of the townland. They showed great tenderness towards all the sick and afflicted. He and his wife fed half the starving villagers, and they were generous to the Buchanans in return. He was also a poet. When the Buchanans' dog died the villagers of Rossport came to offer their condolences and sympathy. A song of mockery called 'Madadh Buchanan' was composed by a Glengad man ridiculing the Rossport people for mourning Buchanan's dog. In 1893 an Englishman arrived in Rossport. He appeared"
"of Gainsborough, Saskatchewan in the 1970s. During his term as Mayor, he was instrumental in having a swimming pool built. There's a little Rembrandt in paintings by William Hobbs, and fans and spectators always look for in his work. Rembrandt is the nickname of the little Jack Russell Terrier that often appears in Williams railway paintings. It's a nod to the master Rembrandt, who placed a similar dog, darkly lit, in his most famous painting, ""The Night Watch"". But in Hobbs's paintings, the dog doesn't scurry around musketeers in plumed hats and sashed waists but around old steam engine trains"
"be featured frequently in literature and in art. ""On Rover, a Lady's Spaniel"", Jonathan Swift's satire of Ambrose Philips's poem to the daughter of the Lord Lieutenant, describes the features of an English toy, specifying a ""forehead large and high"" among other physical characteristics of the breeds. Toy spaniels and Pugs were featured in both group portraits and satirical works by William Hogarth. Toy spaniels were still popular with the upper classes as ladies' dogs, despite the introduction of the Pug; both Thomas Gainsborough's of Queen Charlotte from 1781 and George Romney's 1782 """" feature toy spaniels with their mistresses."
"Landseer dog The Landseer is a dog breed. The breed is not recognized by all kennel clubs . It is not to be confused with a white and black Newfoundland, which is also often called a ""landseer"". The breed was named after the British painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, because in 1838 he created the painting ""A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society"", which shows a dog of this breed. The Landseer Newfoundland dog is known for its sweet disposition, gentleness, and serenity. They enjoy swimming and tend to drool, though not as much as some other giant breeds. During"
"A Dog's Tale ""A Dog's Tale"" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of ""Harper's Magazine"". In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers. The book is told from the standpoint of a loyal household pet, a dog self-described by the first sentence of the story; ""My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian."" The story begins"
"Bashaw (Matthew Cotes Wyatt) Bashaw, a Newfoundland dog, sat some fifty times for his portrait. His owner, Lord Dudley and Ward, commissioned the marble sculpture from Matthew Cotes Wyatt in 1831. The work was to have been displayed in Lord Dudley's house in Park Lane, but he died the year before it was finished, in 1833, and ""Bashaw"" remained in the possession of the sculptor until his death in 1862. Dogs' portraits were occasionally painted during the nineteenth century, but this elaborate lifesize sculpted piece, originally set with gems is unique. In 1851 it was shown at the Great Exhibition,"
"Harvey, her brother and their dog, Hairy Man. They are known because of their bravery in rescuing sailors from two sinking ships, the ""Despatch"" and ""The Rankin"". A chamber opera based on the story of Ann Harvey entitled ""Ann & Seamus"" was written for ""Shallaway - Newfoundland and Labrador Youth in Chorus"" by Stephen Hatfield in 2007. The opera was based on the narrative poem by Kevin Major. French Pronunciation—I-lo-mor Pronounced by Residents as—I-la-mort Isle aux Morts Isle aux Morts is a small town on the Southwest Coast of the Island of Newfoundland, with an estimated population of 600. The"
"Heathcote Williams John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist. He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems including ""Autogeddon"", ""Falling for a Dolphin"" and ""Whale Nation"", which in 1988 became, according to Philip Hoare, ""the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling."" Williams invented his idiosyncratic ""documentary/investigative poetry"" style which he put to good purpose bringing a diverse range of environmental and political matters to public attention. His last published work, ""American Porn"" was a critique of the American political"
"dog, Boot. In the early days of the strip they lived in an approximately 10-foot (3 m) diameter concrete pipe section in a seemingly abandoned builder's yard. In 1966 he and Boot moved into a small railway station that had been closed by the Beeching Axe, and they have lived there ever since. Wellington takes his nickname from his trademark wellington boots – he cannot afford proper shoes. He named his dog Boot to go with Wellington. Wellington is quite an intellectual and given to philosophical trains of thought. He can also be quite resourceful – he appears to support"